Uptake of one and two molecules of CO2 by the molybdate dianion: a soluble, molecular oxide model system for carbon dioxide fixation

• DOI: 10.1039/c4sc00132j
• Publication Date: 2014-02-06T09:31:00Z
• Authors: Ioana Knopf; Takashi Ono; Manuel Temprado; Daniel Tofan; Christopher C. Cu...
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences

Herein we report the finding that molybdate absorbs not just one but two equivalents of CO2 (the second, reversibly) together with complete characterization including single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies of the resulting mono- and dicarbonate complexes.